The actual motivations behind Spartacus' revolt do not detract from his accomplishments, however. THE REVOLT OF SPARTACUS BEGAN, MORE OR LESS, AS AN ACCIDENT THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF THE GLADIATORS, ACCORDING TO THE HISTORIAN PLUTARCH, WAS SIMPLY TO ESCAPE THEIR SLAVERY. Once that plan was discovered, however, they had no choice but to fight for their freedom or submit to execution. The revolt of Spartacus began, more or less, as an accident the original plan of the gladiators, according to the historian Plutarch (c. Roman SlavesThe actual Spartacus, however, was not a proto-Marxian proletariat revolutionary nor a hero of his people fighting for their freedom he was simply a man who had endured enough of the Roman institution of slavery and, one day, decided he would endure no more.
